Poet

And so I did something,

I bled on the page and you saw it.

You saw it from the other room

The other city

The other state

The other world

my words stained everything

And you felt it,

And when you did time did not exist

Time was a soldier under my command

and because I was drunken with hubris

Time stood still

and we waited, me and time

until you found us

nearly dead

and bleeding out pints all over the ground

and finally

after a review

and a nod

and a sigh

You whispered

like all other gods do

you quietly echoed on the wind,

good job

and by the time the smoke signal got to me

aching for one last breath

all I heard was

I love you

And to everyone’s surprise

like magic

I have the strength

for just

one

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